I'm very excited to let you know that today IBM Announced Db2 AI for z/OS. IBM Db2 AI for z/OS (Db2ZAI) empowers the Db2 for z/OS optimizer to select improved access paths for SQL and improves application performance using machine learning models. This new offering can help:

Internal IBM benchmarks show up to 25% performance benefit in terms of reduction in CPU time when machine learning technology integrated with Db2 AI for z/OS was employed for a set of qualifying Db2 queries.